Physics

One goal of Advanced Biofuels USA,” said founder Joanne Ivancic, “is to help decision-makers and opinion leaders understand how  farmers, growers, researchers and industry can produce sustainable and economical biofuels that will directly replace all types of transportation fuels including gasoline and jetfuel, and thus will provide for energy security, military strategic flexibility, climate change mitigation and rural economic development

Precision is going to do away with waste and will give a major boost to the economy; according to Alle Bruggink and Diederik van der Hoeven in their new book ‘More with Less, Welcome to the Precision Economy’. Precision technology enables companies to make better products: of better quality, producing less waste and less environmental pollution, using less energy, in short: more sustainable. And in mankind’s use of hardware, a shift is going on towards more efficient use (less idle property): the sharing economy. But precision will also come with its dilemmas, discussed by the authors

The Pharmaceutical Industry is changing. While the North American and European markets have seen growth in this industry slow, facilities close and jobs being lost as the big pharma companies attempt to adjust to changing economic conditions, increasing generic competition as patents expire and dwindling drug pipelines, the Asia-Pacific region has seen a rapid shift and subsequent growth which shows no signs of slowing now. The “Emerging Markets” are benefitting from a combination of factors including, changing economic conditions, a highly educated and skilled potential workforce and lower overall costs of production, which have encouraged the major Pharma/Biopharma companies to look east and make continuing substantial investments in R&D and Manufacturing operations in the region